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"Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanese to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. Our elders were Epirotes, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans. This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies. I do not have to speak for the Epiroti. They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish. If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty. From those men come these who you called sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?"

Letter from Skanderbeg to the Prince of Taranto ▬ Skanderbeg, October 31 1460

Stephen of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus (Greek: Στέφανος Βυζάντιος; fl. 6th century AD) was the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica (Εθνικά). Of the dictionary itself only meagre fragments survive, but we possess an epitome compiled by one Hermolaus. (Wikipedia)

""Athamania" redirects here. For the use of the name in modern Greece, see Athamania (disambiguation).

Athamanians or Athamanes were an ancient tribe that inhabited south-eastern Epirus and west Thessaly. Although regarded as "barbarians" by Strabo and Hecataeus of Miletus, the Athamanians self-identified as Greeks.[1] The existence of myths about Athamas and Ino in Achaean Phthiotis suggests that the Athamanians were settled there before 1600 BC.[2] They were an independent semi-barbarian tribe (in 395 and 355 BC according to Diodorus Siculus[3]) occasionally allies of the Aetolians.[4] Amynander and Theodorus of Athamania are reported kings of the Athamanians."---wikipedia.

"Amantia (Greek: Ἀμάντια) or Abantia (Greek: Ἀβάντια) was an ancient Greek polis[1] with a walled enclosure roughly 2,100m long. A large fort was built with two gates and two defensive towers in the north. It occupied an important defensive position above the Aoos river valley to the east, and on the road to the coast and the Bay of Vlorë. A Greek temple, the Aphrodite temple, a theatre, and a stadium have also been found in the city.[2] The name for its civilians was Amantieus (Greek: Ἀμάντιεύς)."---Wikipedia.

"Apollonia (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνία κατ' Ἐπίδαμνον or Ἀπολλωνία πρὸς Ἐπιδάμνῳ Apollonia kat' Epidamnon or Apollonia pros Epidamno) was an ancient Greek[1][2][3] city in Illyria, located on the right bank of the Aous river (modern-day Vjosë). Its ruins are situated in the Fier region, near the village of Pojani, in modern-day Albania."..wikipedia

The toponym Arbon (Greek: Ἄρβων or Ἀρβών) [10] or Arbo[11] (Greek: Άρβωνα)[12] is mentioned by Polybius in the History of the World (second century BC). It was perhaps an island[13] in Liburnia or another location within Illyria. Stephanus of Byzantium centuries later, cites Polybius, saying it was a city in Illyria and gives an ethnic name for its inhabitants."...Wikipedia

The toponym Arbon (Greek: Ἄρβων or Ἀρβών) [10] or Arbo[11] (Greek: Άρβωνα)[12] is mentioned by Polybius in the History of the World (second century BC). It was perhaps an island[13] in Liburnia or another location within Illyria. Stephanus of Byzantium centuries later, cites Polybius, saying it was a city in Illyria and gives an ethnic name for its inhabitants."...Wikipedia